Regarding the question of "ground" (Grund), Hegel remarks, among other things:

"If nature is said to be the ground of the world, then that which is called nature is, on the one hand, the same as the world, and the world is nothing other than nature itself" (100) [552]. On the other hand, "in order for nature to become the world, a manifold of determinations is joined to it from without"...

Since every thing possesses "several"* "determinations of content, relation, and aspects," one can adduce arguments in any number for and against (103) [554-555]. This is what Socrates and Plato called sophistry. Such arguments do not contain the "entire scope of the thing," do not "exhaust" it (in the sense of "grasping the connection of the thing" and "containing all" its sides).

The transition of ground (Grund) into condition (Bedingung).

If I am not mistaken, there is much mysticism and empty** pedantry in Hegel's conclusions here, but the fundamental idea is brilliant: the universal, all-sided, living connection of everything with everything and the reflection of this connection — Hegel materialistisch auf den Kopf gestellter*** — in human concepts, which must likewise be hewn, broken, flexible, mobile, relative, interconnected, unified in opposites, in order to encompass the world. The continuation of the work of Hegel and Marx must consist in the dialectical elaboration of the history of human thought, science, and technology.

But the "purely logical" elaboration?
Das fallt zusammen****.
This must coincide, as induction and deduction do in *Capital*.
A river and the drops in that river. The position of each drop, its relation

* — "numerous." Ed.
** — If I am not mistaken, there is much mysticism and emptiness here. Ed.
*** — Hegel turned materialistically on his head. Ed.
**** — This coincides. Ed.

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Often in Hegel the word "moment" [is used]

in the sense of a moment of connection, a moment in the linking
to others; its connection with others; the direction of its movement; speed; the line of movement — straight, curved, circular, etc. — upward, downward. The sum of movement. Concepts as accounting for particular aspects of movement, particular drops (= "things"), particular "streams," etc. Behold a peu pres* the picture of the world according to Hegel's Logic, — of course, minus the little god and the absolute.

"If all conditions of a certain thing are present, then it enters into existence"... (116) [568].

Excellent! what has absolute idea and idealism to do with this?
It is amusing, this "derivation"... of existence...

* — roughly. Ed.

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